Why are you even here, dookie? You don't like me? You know what to do. You know how often people apologize to each other on message boards, even when they are complete fucking assholes? I'm ahead of that curve.
You know, fuck all y'all. All I said was that Latino people in New York refer to themselves as Latino, which actually is not controversial. I don't know who that other poster is hanging out with, but not a single person I ever met in NYC referred to themselves as Hispanic. I had an office mate who was Puerto Rican; she referred to herself as Latina. The door staff to my apartment building were Dominican and they called themselves Latino. I had already tried to defuse the disagreement by saying that I haven't been there for a while and maybe it's changed but no, he kept it up. He even referred to the Young Lords, which is kind of odd given that the Young Lords referred to themselves as Latino (as did their gang rivals, the Latin Kings).
Here's another link talking to actual Latino/Hispanic New Yorkers about that word choice. Notice that every single one of them referred to themselves as Latino or Latina (though many preferred more specific terms). They also said that growing up, they would either hear Latino or Latino and Hispanic interchangeably.
For National Hispanic Heritage month, we ask: Do you prefer “Hispanic” or “Latino”?
www.americamagazine.org
But somehow y'all are piling on me. So fuck it. I don't need this shit, and I'm not going to apologize to you again dookie. Did they ever clean up the graffiti in the Duke libraries? I've been in a lot of university libraries and only Perkins was covered with graffiti. Nasty, misogynist and racist graffiti, all over the cubicles and the stacks and fucking everywhere. And yeah, that was around 92, so GFY.
